The Clock Will Strike Midnight I remember the first time I heard Steven Curtis’ Chapman’s song, “Cinderella”. (Click the link to listen to the song if you have not heard it previously–the rest will make MUCH more sense–I promise! However, you will want to have tissues nearby–you’ve been warned!) At the time, I couldn’t much […]
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Don’t Get Cocky My boys are back into Star Wars recently. They just watched “Solo” yesterday morning, so I have all things George Lucas on the brain. Leia’s line and the inspiration for the title of this post is not far from the truth, though. Between COVID, climate change, racial injustice, political corruption, and a
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The Way, the Truth, and the Life I grew up a maroon jumper-wearing, saddle-shoed strutting, rosary-praying good Catholic girl. A decade later, I spent my college years as an evangelical Christian. Steeped in the traditions and rituals of the Christian faith, my relationship with God flourished. My upbringing not only gave me a strong grounding
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Walking the Walk The longer I have been on the contemplative path, the more I have been drawn to a life that is slower-paced and more connected to nature, other people, and, it goes without saying, the creator. Within a couple years of starting down this road, I naturally felt drawn to cultivate more compassionate
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Field of Dreams is my husband’s favorite movie. Despite this, in thirteen years of marriage, we never once watched it together in its entirety. Instead, he would flip over to it after our boys went to bed whenever it was showing on one of the cable channels. Typically, we would catch only portions of the
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Grief is different for everyone “Lightning doesn’t strike the same place twice.” Roy Sullivan, who survived being struck 7 times in his lifetime, would probably have disagreed with that statement. Our family, like Roy, is no stranger to repeat tragedies–I’m not the first in the family to grieve the loss of a spouse relatively early
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Four Types of Love How do you quantify the value of a human life? Is it the number of non-traditional breakfast foods a man consumes, the number of Orioles games or Law and Order episodes watched, or how many times his one-of-a-kind humor makes us laugh? I can only speak to my own experience with
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The Prelude My cousin Katie and I grew up as next door neighbors on the remains of a several hundred acre plot of land that our great-grandparents owned. I was older by a little more than a year. This was such a bonus as a kid. I got to do everything first–school, dating, driving, college,
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I don’t like writing Though this statement is no longer true (you are after all, reading my blog), for many of my formative 20 years, I DESPISED writing. From scratching out thank you notes to pushing myself through college literary analysis essays, writing was drudgery. Yet, when God plants a seed within you, he finds
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Seeing Beauty Our family spent the past three days in New York City, enjoying the beautiful sights. We walked to the center of Brooklyn Bridge and took in the gorgeous free view of the skyline. The boys requested to go to the MET, so we spent three hours viewing ancient Greek and Roman busts and
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